Hi Çag(atay,
You willing and able to research on how to standardize this and 
contribute it back to the RI?
Manfred
On 1/13/15, 1:50 PM, Josh Juneau wrote:
> To All-
>
> I agree that a solution to this issue would require some assumption on 
> how things are structured.  I prefer the technique utilized in 
> PrimeFaces, whereby you are able to reference components via their 
> widgetVar, rather than by ID.  If effort were to be spent on some 
> resolution to this issue, I'd rather see a standardized implementation 
> of the widgetVar solution that is present in the PrimeFaces JavaScript 
> API.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Josh Juneau
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>
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:46 AM, manfred riem 
> <manfred.riem_at_oracle.com <mailto:manfred.riem_at_oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Kito,
>
>     It took it as the JavaScript functions getClientId() or
>     getClientId('whatever') as it is said to be JS function.
>
>     Regards,
>     Manfred
>
>
>
>     On 1/12/15, 11:33 AM, Kito Mann wrote:
>>     Is the JIRA issue just asking about EL evaluation (as the example
>>     implies), or is it referring to a real JavaScript function?
>>
>>     In other words, are they asking about this:
>>
>>     <h:button id="button1"
>>     onclick="button_setEnabled(*#{getClientId('button2')}*,
>>     false);button_clicked(*#{getClientId('button1')}*;return"... />
>>
>>     or:
>>
>>     <h:button id="button1"
>>     onclick="button_setEnabled(*getClientId('button2')*,
>>     false);button_clicked(*getClientId('button1')*;return"... />
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:27 PM, manfred riem
>>     <manfred.riem_at_oracle.com <mailto:manfred.riem_at_oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi Kito,
>>
>>         Ughh, as you pointed out the client id is already there. My
>>         brain just stopped working :(.
>>
>>         However I still want to mark this issue as "Won't fix" as
>>         there is no way of knowing how a specific component is being
>>         rendered and which HTML element corresponds to the client id
>>         of the component. And no I don't want to make any assumption
>>         on how it is structured.
>>
>>         Thoughts?
>>         Manfred
>>
>>
>>         On 1/12/15, 11:13 AM, Kito Mann wrote:
>>>         Manfred, can you articulate your objection more clearly? We
>>>         definitely know the client id before the JavaScript
>>>         executes, since it executes on the client :-).
>>>
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>>>         On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:00 PM, manfred riem
>>>         <manfred.riem_at_oracle.com <mailto:manfred.riem_at_oracle.com>>
>>>         wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi all,
>>>
>>>             I like to close
>>>             https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-49
>>>             as "Won't fix" as this request suffers from the chicken
>>>             and the egg problem. In this particular case we cannot
>>>             make sure the client id is rendered before the
>>>             JavaScript executes.
>>>
>>>             Thoughts?
>>>             Manfred
>>>
>>>
>>
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